Posted on 08/27/2008 3:04:19 PM PDT by 21stCenturyFreeThinker
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reports of strong support within John McCain's presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could get away with it.
But they can't get away with it -- and this has been made clear to McCain by none other than Joe Lieberman himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Novak is hardly the only one reporting McCains infatuation with Lieberman.I was just surprised he was still seriously being considered this late in the process. I do think Novak is right that McCain would choose Lieberman if he thought he could get away with it.
Um...if my history lessons were correct from 40 years ago, it used to be that the vice president was actually the runner-up at the end of the Presidential elections. It was changed sometime after the Civil War but before the turn of the century. In fact, Andrew Johnson may have been the impetus for that change!
Your history lessons weren't correct. That was only true until ratification of the 12th Amendment, in 1804. The only two elections the situation you describe affected were the elections of 1796 and 1800, both of which had screwy results that needed fixing.
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